Josef Lampersberger

Josef Lampersberger jun. (* September 16, 1912 in Degerndorf am Inn ; † unknown) was a German SPD and trade union official and active in the resistance against National Socialism .

Josef Lampersberger was the second child of the SPD members Josef Lampersberger sen. and Maria , b. Wiesbeck . He completed an apprenticeship as a hotel waiter in the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten in Munich and at the same time became a voluntary SPD and trade union functionary. From 1928 he was with the Reichsbanner . From 1931 until the dissolution of the Reichsbanner in 1933 he was Reichsbannerführer in Aubing , a community west of Munich that was incorporated in 1942. At that time he was working at Mitropa . From 1929 he was a member of the Central Association of Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe Employees .

At the same time he founded the resistance group The Red Rebels with Franz Faltner . His code name was Jola. The Gestapo had noticed and so he had to flee. In September 1933 he left for Eger in Czechoslovakia . There he was asked to cooperate by the Czech secret service. He refused and, from 1933 onwards , carried out courier services on behalf of Sopade , the exile SPD. To do this, he disguised himself as a train waiter and took trains to Germany.

He also organized the resistance group with Faltner, for which he produced pamphlets from 1934. His father, who still lived in Aubing, served as the recipient and distributor of these illegal publications. On April 27, 1935 Josef Lampersberger jun. Kidnapped by German agents near Eisenstein on Czechoslovak territory. He was badly mistreated on the way to Munich. On April 28th he was taken to the police prison in Munich / Ettstrasse. An international press campaign and intervention by the Czechoslovak government led to his release back to Czechoslovakia on May 3, 1935.

In September 1938 the Sudetenland was detached from Czechoslovakia and incorporated into the German Reich, on March 15, 1939 the German Wehrmacht occupied the legal Czech Republic. Lampersberger was expatriated on February 17, 1939 . In the same year he fled via Paris and Amsterdam to Great Britain, where he was housed in the Seaton internment camp until 1940 . Until 1945 he worked as an interpreter and interrogator . He stayed in Great Britain after the war ended. In 1946 Lampersberger took on British citizenship.

Web links

Autobiographical report by Lampersberger in English, 10 pages, written in 1960.
Resistance 1933-1946 , an article on the history of the SPD on the SPD website in the Bavarian state parliament

literature

Short biography in Hartmut Mehringer a. a .: The parties KPD, SPD, BVP in persecution and resistance , Oldenbourg Verlag, 1983 (pp. 381–383, 385 f.)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ingelore Pilwousek (ed.): Persecution and resistance. The fate of Munich social democrats during the Nazi era . Volk Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86222-042-7 , pp. 240 .
^ Jürgen Zarusky , Hartmut Mehringer : Resistance as "High Treason" 1933-1945 . Index tape for the microfiche edition. Walter de Gruyter, 1998. ISBN 978-3-110-97558-1 (pp. 304 and 590).
↑ ^a ^b Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Emigration after 1933-1945 , Volume 1 Politics, Economy, Public Life . Walter de Gruyter , 1980. ISBN 978-3-110-97028-9 (p. 410 f).

personal data
SURNAME	Lampersberger, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SPD functionary and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Degerndorf am Inn
DATE OF DEATH	after 1946

[verfolgung-1] Ingelore Pilwousek (ed.): Persecution and resistance. The fate of Munich social democrats during the Nazi era . Volk Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86222-042-7 , pp. 240 .

[2] Jürgen Zarusky , Hartmut Mehringer : Resistance as "High Treason" 1933-1945 . Index tape for the microfiche edition. Walter de Gruyter, 1998. ISBN 978-3-110-97558-1 (pp. 304 and 590).

[Handbuch-3] Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Emigration after 1933-1945 , Volume 1 Politics, Economy, Public Life . Walter de Gruyter , 1980. ISBN 978-3-110-97028-9 (p. 410 f).